The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection
A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues
Icom and Aliph’s $250,000 project is providing training and security measures for 22 museums in countries ravaged by war
The appellate court judges’ decision came as a surprise, as the general prosecutor had asked for the charges—which relate to the acquisition of Egyptian antiquities by the Louvre Abu Dhabi—to be dropped
The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office
The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt
An ongoing investigation into White's collection expects to see more objects repatriated in the future
The ruling of the examining chamber, expected next year, could overturn the investigation against both curators in a case implicating the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Metropolitan Museum
The Himaya project based in Qatar has been working with Interpol to identify artefacts trafficked to London, Paris and Amsterdam
Lotfi addresses allegations that led to a warrant being issued for his arrest in a statement and interview, giving new details on the extraordinary story of the Metropolitan Museum's gold sarcophagus
Owner of L’Etoile d’Ishtar gallery said artefacts from Saqqara necropolis “should be restituted to Egypt” but insists he purchased them in good faith
The artefact, seized in Memphis, Tennessee, was en route to a collector who is believed to have falsified statements regarding its value
Cambodian government says stone artefacts kept at San Francisco home of billionaire Lindemann family match those looted from sacred site
Georges Lotfi has been accused of handling the types of materials he helped the police recover and repatriate for years
In wake of scandal involving former Louvre director, France's culture minister forms taskforce to assess acquisitions procedures at museums
Five objects worth more than €3m have been confiscated by authorities as part of a wide-ranging global investigation involving former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez
A number of objects purchased by the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are now under scrutiny—including an ancient Egyptian marble head worth €35m
Martinez has been indicted for “complicity of gang fraud and laundering“ of objects purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Louvre Abu Dhabi
Investigation focuses on purchases made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi
The artefacts were flagged by Christos Tsiogiannis, who has, since 2006, been identifying looted antiquities through photographic archives of suspected and convicted dealers in plunder
Research published by forensic archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis suggests the brilliant fresco fragment may have been illegally excavated near Pompeii
The items have been under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney since 2017
The host of the Art Bust podcast argues that the nature and purpose of art crime–and by extension, of the art detectives who fight it—has changed in recent years
Tools and other objects were discovered in a national park in southwest Texas, triggering an inquiry
Critics say Turkish government polices give short shrift to religious minorities’ cultural heritage
Institution has been faulted for a lack of oversight in determining what artefacts were legally exported and sold
Government-funded image-recognition software will enable law enforcers to work with international organisations
Dealers association challenged the campaign’s claims that two newly pictured objects were stolen
Authorities have accused Erdal Dere and Faisal Khan of running an alleged scheme to swindle buyers by using fake provenances
Legal case brought against antiquities expert who also sold an allegedly looted golden sarcophagus to the Metropolitan Museum last year, while an arrest is made in Germany